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SEO Work For Nucleus Healthcare

Mathew Browne — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:44:30 +0000

A website redesign for Nucleus Healthcare, leading provider of gastric balloon treatment. Their gastric balloon TV and radio campaign is currently seen and heard throughout Wales and the West.

Reducing Code Bloat for SEO

Mathew Browne — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:16:21 +0000

A problem with some of the ‘usual suspects’ in e-commerce website development is the code. Not that it doesn’t work – everything is as it should be – but there’s so much code that you risk harming your SEO strategy without doing something about it. Here are some simple tactics I’ve employed for recent Cubecart websites

1. Where is the sidebar?

In the global website template, the order of page elements was: head, sidebar, content, footer. Content and sidebar were divs floated to the left and right respectively, but in terms of a search engine spider, the sidebar’s contents (in this site’s case – the basket) preceded the main content, and therefore considered more important. One simple reversal has no effect on design to the end user but changes the complexion of a search engine’s interpretation completely.

2. Strip unnecessary javascript

Every little helps – if your site is referencing javascript that isn’t used, get rid of it. though the few lines of code you save have a negligible effect on SEO, you could be saving valuable seconds in load time. You can always put it back in if that lightbox or scriptaculous effect is absolutely necessary.

3. WYSIWYG code bloat

Cubecart’s page editor is quite guilty of embedding superfluous tags for page styling. Particularly on front page and category pages in an e-commerce site, code bloat like this ought to be stripped.

Acid Rain: A New Wordpress Theme

Mathew Browne — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:18:18 +0000

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What Is The Value Of A Blog Link – The Verdict

Mathew Browne — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:14:36 +0000

Looking good – on the strength of my blog mention alone, the Llanelli Builders and Swansea Builders sites have been indexed by Google and rank inside the top 10 search results. Not bad. Similarly, Simply Maternal’s website, after several weeks of Google seemingly ignoring its status inside Webmaster Tools, has been indexed and cached within 24 hours of the blog post going up.

The moral of this story is: Google really likes blog posts.

What Is The Value Of A Blog Link?

Mathew Browne — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:58:00 +0000

I’ve recently launched a couple of websites.

RDM Properties is a Llanelli builder and Swansea builder. Unfortunately it is not the most stable industry to be in at the moment! Though the business has been buoyant in past years, the owner is convinced it would be prudent to get a web presence at the top of Google’s search results for builders in his area.

The second website is for Simply Maternal, who are experiencing an unusually long delay is seeing their website listed by Google.

This is where this blog post comes in – I want to investigate how much value Google places in my website by linking to these sites and monitoring what effect it has on search rankings. I’ll report back with the results in a few weeks.